I feel like you're trying a bit to undermine Gavin.
If you take a look at the result, you can see that people are really divided when it comes to this. Gavin isn't the only on thinking that it is over.
I don't think that it is over, however looking at the big picture it isn't too far from being over. We've had a number of countries that had problems even before that started. We can see various unemployment charts to see that at least that had improved.
There will always be economic problems somewhere (e.g. Argentina, Greece, Russia) however most of the major economies are stable right now (US, Eurozone except Greece, UK, ..) - this wasn't the case in 2008/2009.
The crisis is over and Bitcoin is the winner - it's all over Wall Street now.
Russia has economic problems?
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How is retail broadband coming along in Greece? Ukraine? Venezuela? Argentina? Larger blocks make Bitcoin nodes harder to operate in some of the places where it is needed the most, and where (for purposes of diversity/diffusion/resiliency/defensibility) Bitcoin most needs its nodes to be.
On a side note, now that we know they operate on entirely contradictory premises/assumptions, it's amusing to watch cypherdoc (who nearly everyday proclaims the financial crisis is *not* over) strenuously cheerlead for
[email protected] on 20MB blocks, XTortion forks, or whatever the latest crackpot of scheme of
[email protected] is.
There are not going to be 20 MB blocks. We are going to see 8 MB blocks from 2016 to 2018 which is okay. To download a 8 MB block within 5 minutes (even though blocks should be 10 minutes each) one needs a transfer rate 26.6 KB/s. Are you telling me that those countries don't have such internet speeds? However, bandwidth might be a problem.
Greece has quite decent internet actually, stop talking nonsense.
